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«A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.»
«Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.»
«The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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accommodates, brightens, consolation, exquisite, mourning
«The English Bible / a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.»
«Obadiah Bind - their - kings - in - chains - and -their - nobles - with - links - of - iron.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
«There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that is freedom.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
«Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
«We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
«The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
«The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it is worth.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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